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White House takes gun grab on the road

White House takes gun grab on the road

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden and other top White House officials are talking to communities hit hard by gun violence to make the case that Congress wouldn’t act, so the president did.

The White House sought to build support for President Barack Obama’s executive actions on guns one day before he participates in a nationally televised town hall on gun issues. Biden participated in interviews with stations from Charleston, South Carolina; Hartford, Connecticut; and Roanoke, Virginia, among others.

The White House is trying to build the same enthusiasm for Obama’s actions as gun rights enthusiasts have exhibited for the NRA’s argument that guns aren’t the problem. Biden and Obama’s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, took their message directly to communities still haunted by mass shootings.

“After giving them every chance to do something, the president decided we can’t wait any longer for these initiatives,” Biden said of lawmakers in an interview with NBC Connecticut in Hartford.

Biden told some of the stations that the executive actions could have stopped crimes in their communities. At the same time, he emphasized that eligible gun buyers will find it quicker to purchase a gun because part of the president’s plan involves hiring more people to conduct background checks.

“If anything we’re speeding up the access to it for people who are legally entitled to get a gun,” Biden told Roanoke station WDBJ, which lost two employees to a shooting while they worked on the air last year.

Roanoke is also near Virginia Tech, where 32 students and teachers died in an April 2007 massacre.

“Imagine what would have happened had Virginia reported the mental state of the shooter in Blacksburg down at Virginia Tech,” Biden said.

Biden said he’s met with the parents who lost their children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown and said they “share a lousy thing in common” with the loss of a child.

“It’s something that haunts you. It’s the idea of those beautiful little babies in those classrooms like dolls discarded,” Biden said.

Obama announced a 10-point plan to try to keep guns from people who shouldn’t have them. The centerpiece is new federal guidance that seeks to clarify who is “in the business” of selling firearms and has to get a federal license.

The White House also enlisted Democratic members of Congress to help push the president’s proposals. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said Obama’s executive actions showed change was possible.

“If the Republican Party would rather work for the NRA than for the American people, and if they won’t do their jobs to keep our children safe, than somebody else has to step up,” Warren said.

Republican lawmakers have been critical of Obama, saying he focused his actions on law-abiding citizens rather than on criminals and terrorist. When asked whether House leaders planned to take legal action, House Speaker Paul Ryan said “we’re looking at all of our options.”

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Associated Press writer Josh Lederman contributed to this report.

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A ten point plan to keep guns from those who shouldn’t have them = all of us except for the elitists in control. The 2nd amendment protects the rest of the amendments. Take that away and we don’t have a nation any longer. The 2nd amendment gives we the people the right to bear arms in case the government becomes tyrannical. People this is the state we are presently in.

And the lies, smoke and mirrors, and treason just keep coming from this nest of b–tworms. joe biden, of the “just get a double barrel shotgun and fire off a couple of blasts” fame, takes the obummer dog and pony show on the road, and the slobbering dog press laps it up. Make no mistake, this executive action is just the beginning. Anyone who has ever been treated for ANY kind of mental health problem will be subject to having their firearms CONFISCATED. WAKE UP AMERICA.

“If the Republican Party would rather work for the NRA than for the American people, and if they won’t do their jobs to keep our children safe, than somebody else has to step up,” (Elizabeth) Warren said.

“If the Democratic Party would rather work for Planned Parenthood than for the American people and if they won’t do their jobs to keep our future generations safe, then somebody else has to step up,” America says

Unfortunately, if you bought your gun legally, the government already knows you own it. Buying a gun entails signing your name at least 6 times on various forms that nobody takes the time to read. God only knows what the fine print says.

Too damn true. Heck as a joke (which iirc did get the HM1 in trouble with the command for it), one of our Medical staff in Oki, decided on a dime, to print out some ‘proper looking forms’ for people to sign as part of their annual physical paperwork.. In one spot it said “in the fine print”
“I do solomly swear that HM1 is god, and i shall bow down at his feet”..

JUST to see whether people actually paid attention to what they were signing..

IIRC he got a few extra days of watch and some ‘**** duties’ for a week.. BUT it made people take notice of what they were signing for a while afterwards..

Warren the phony Indian who lied about her ethnicity to get a job at Harvard is now leading the charge to usurp the second amendment. Not the best spokesman for gun control.

But bottom line is Obama, Hillary and the democrats think the american people are stupid. This is executive action is just one more in the death by a thousand cuts of the second amendment. It is not about safety, it is about control.

An executive action to disarm people on social security and to stop the private sale of a firearm is just one more step in allowing the federal government to control who can purchase a firearm or own a firearm. When clearly the constitution prohibits such actions.

Obama can make all the speeches in front of hand-picked audiences that he wants. He can even cry his crocodile tears for dramatic effect, but he is deluding himself, if he thinks the people who own guns and understand the importance of the Second Amendment in guarding all our liberties will be as easy to fool with his leftist BS.

He is also deluding himself if he thinks those people–who DO understand how crucial those rights are–will simply meekly hand over their guns to a tyrant whose naked thirst for power is on display EVERY DAY for all to see.